[Testing Update] 2021-07-27 - Kernels, Systemd, Firefox, LibreOffice

Known issues and solutions

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New issues:


Older Issues

  • OS prober does not run and add other operating systems

    Please click the ► at the beginning of this line to view this solution

    To restore, please execute: echo GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false|sudo tee -a /etc/default/grub && sudo update-grub

    For more information, see opening post in [Stable Update] 2021-03-08.

Nvidia card owners

  • We simplified nVidia driver installation. This means we dropped legacy drivers.
    • We recommend to switch over to Nouveau drivers if your card is mentioned here and the feature you need is not in red TO DO here for your particular card.

    • If you however still need proprietary drivers, you may want to execute the following to ensure all parts of the nVidia drivers get installed properly:

      sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300
      
      If proprietary drivers don't fix everything, please click the ► at the beginning of this line to view more info
      1. try installing kernel 5.4 LTS (Long Term Support)
      2. If that doesn’t fix it, take a full system backup, go to a console using Ctrl+Alt+F2 and:
      • Backup /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf if you ever edited that manually

      • remove all nVidia related drivers and applications:

        pacman --remove nvidia*
        
      • Note which applications are being removed and keep them handy in a list

      • Install the driver first:

        mhwd --install video-hybrid-XXX-nvidia-prime
        

        (Where XXX is amd or intel if you have hybrid graphics or the whole thing is video-nvidia if you’re on an nVidia-only system)

      • reboot and see if you at least get a screen.

      • Install all the other applications from your handy list that you still need one by one.

      • Restore /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf if you ever edited that manually

      • If that wouldn’t solve the issue open a new issue here referring to this update and posting at a minimum the full output of:

        inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
        

      If you however still have issues with your Nvidia card, you may open a new thread in our forum: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support/Graphic-Cards/33 or look at our tutorial on compiling old Nvidia drivers.

For AMD GPU users having a black screen with kernel 5.10

Please click the ► at the beginning of this line to view more info

Due to a bug in the AMD drivers, please try the following first:

For GRUB:

  1. Open a terminal or a TTY
  2. Open /etc/default/grub in your favourite CLI editor (nano vi, emacs`)
  3. Find the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="
  4. Add amdgpu.dc=0
  5. Save
  6. Execute sudo update-grub and reboot

For systemd-boot:

  1. Open a terminal or a TTY
  2. Open /boot/loader/entries/manjarolinux5.10.conf in your favourite CLI editor (nano vi, emacs`)
  3. Add amdgpu.dc=0 to the end of the line options
  4. Save & reboot

For rEFInd:

  1. Open a terminal or a TTY
  2. Open /boot/refind_linux.conf in your favourite CLI editor (nano vi, emacs`)
  3. Find the line: "Boot using default options" "root=
  4. Add amdgpu.dc=0
  5. Save & reboot

Possible 2 Min delay on shutdown with Gnome

Please click the ► at the beginning of this line to view more info
  • If you got the problem with shutdown delay (about 2min) on Gnome, here is a workaround:
    • Edit /usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-session-restart-dbus.service in your favourite editor as root and add Slice=-.slice as a line all by itself like this:

      [Service]
      Type=notify
      Slice=-.slice
      ExecStart=/usr/lib/gnome-session-ctl --restart-dbus
      
    • Click this link For more information

Touchpad on a ThinkPad stops working

  • Restart again, please.

You get [PKGNAME] warning: directory permissions differ on [Directory name]

followed by:

Filesystem: NNN package MMM

Please click the ► at the beginning of this line to view this solution
  • The solution:

    sudo chmod MMM DirectoryName
    

Where obviously MMM is the second number you see (the correct one)

  • The explanation:
    Your package expects the security permissions to be MMM but your system is set to NNN. This is just a warning (today) but to ensure you remain up-to-date with the latest and greatest security rules it’s advised to execute the above command.

Systemd error message: .slice: Failed to migrate controller cgroups

If you have a similar error message like this:

systemd[1004]: -.slice: Failed to migrate controller cgroups from /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service, ignoring: Permission denied

… you may need to add this Grub parameter to your /etc/default/grub file in line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT: systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=true. To update your grub menu, call: sudo update-grub. For more information on that issue, see also Arch Forum.


Python 3.9 Requires Rebuilds

Instructions for quickly and easily rebuilding affected AUR packages:

# Install yay
sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm yay

# Rebuild AUR python packages
yay -S --noconfirm $(pacman -Qqo "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages")

libtraceevent>=5.9-1 update requires manual intervention

2020-10-23 - Sébastien Luttringer

The libtraceevent package prior to version 5.9-1 was missing a soname link. This has been fixed in 5.9-1, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors

libtraceevent: /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1 exists in filesystem

when updating, use

pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1

to perform the upgrade.

https://www.archlinux.org/news/libtraceevent59-1-update-requires-manual-intervention/

OpenVPN connection times out.

Workaround: donwgrade openvpn (2.5.0-1 => 2.4.9-2).
For a proper solution follow this bug report on Arch Linux: FS#68480 : [openvpn] running unprivileged with iproute no longer working

PAM and PAMBASE got updated, which might prevent you from login

Due to updates from pambase and pam you might take care about any .pacnew files in /etc/pam.d as for example pam_tally, pam_tally2 and pam_cracklib got deprecated. Read in the ArchWiki about managing those files.

Typical issue:

For recovery, it is enough to boot with kernel option “systemd.unit=rescue.target”, then proceed into /etc/pam.d and merge “system-auth” and “system-auth.pacnew”

System takes a long time to boot

If you’ve got errors like Failed to start Network Manager Wait Online. you can try removing systemd from passwd and group in /etc/nsswitch.conf as described here
Update: If you can see the line
dbus-daemon[1453]: [system] Connection has not authenticated soon enough, closing it (auth_timeout=30000ms, elapsed: 45146ms)
in in your dbus log ( journalctl -b -u dbus ), the new/better workaround is to switch cups from service to socket as described here:
systemctl disable cups.service
systemctl enable cups.socket

I think I’ve some font problems

With the update of fontconfig some major rules how fonts get applied changed. Make sure that your system has ttf-dejavu installed. A more in depth explanation can be found here.

Gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell is currently incompatible with wayland

… and causes the system to freeze when the first window is tiled and can render it unbootable. Solution is a hard reset and disabling either pop shell or wayland. If the system becomes unbootable, use a live USB to edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf to disable wayland and reboot.

Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!

Just a warning

warning: manjaro-hello: local (0.6.7-2) is newer than extra (0.6.6-6)

Tested in virtualbox xfce 5.10 en 5.13 kernels … all went fine

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Where’s the problem?
Make a downgrade.

And just a hint - your logo is more than outdated :wink:

I’ll update the RT-Kernel to build -3 soon.

If you use the RT-kernel linux510-rt 5.10.52_rt47, please give us a feedback if everything work’s well.

We’ve modified many things and need your informations.

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No problem at all just a remark Great idea you made me think about a new logo :grinning:

5.10.53-1 LTS working fine at side of 5.13.5-1

Edit: I removed 512 latest week and I upgrade to 513.
Now 510 and 513 are in my system.

I’m talking about the RT-kernel (RealTime), not the normal one !

jack is now in AUR?

jack was replaced by jack2 - if you where asked if it should be replaced, you should answere with [Y]es

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Ah, I see… jack2 provides jack - I was wondering why there weren’t new versions of ffmpeg, mpv etc.

Thanks @nightmare-2021 .

My installed kernels were not showing with sudo update-grub.

Installed 5.4 than, rebooted and reinstalled 5.10 and 5.13.

Having an issue with Brave browser after updating. Starting from the command line gives the following error:

brave                                                                 
[4411:4411:0727/131631.619170:FATAL:double_fork_and_exec.cc(131)] execv /usr/lib/brave-beta/crashpad_handler: Permission denied (13)

Also gave the same error when tried running it with ‘sudo’.

Any ideas from anyone on how to get Brave working again? Thanks!

Not sure if its related but didn’t Brave got dropped from the official repos and is only in the aur now? Might be worth installing brave-bin from the aur

Was dropped. Has been back for a while.

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Can someone install Brave and see if they have the same error then? Thanks!

Yes, updated now, same error.

[2578:2578:0728/111028.822157:FATAL:double_fork_and_exec.cc(131)] execv /usr/lib/brave/crashpad_handler: Permesso negato (13)

Tested: Brave start and works if you give executable permission to the file.

That fixed it, thanks @Edo !

Any reason that for at least three update cycles the Testing branch is yet again far behind Stable branch? @philm

[omano@omano-nvme ~]$ mbn versions --testing --stable -v
:: Compare versions stable / testing
python-flit                          3.2.0-3                      3.2.0-2                                 1
python-flit-core                     3.2.0-3                      3.2.0-2                                 1
python-grpcio                        1.39.0-1                     1.38.1-1                                1
python-grpcio-tools                  1.39.0-1                     1.38.1-1                                1
python-hypothesis                    6.14.5-1                     6.14.4-1                                1
python-pikepdf                       2.16.1-1                     2.15.1-1                                1
python-watchgod                      0.7-1                        0.6-2                                   1
renpy                                7.4.7-1                      7.4.6-1                                 1
renpy-demos                          7.4.7-1                      7.4.6-1                                 1
retroarch                            1.9.7-1                      1.9.6-3                                 1
scrot                                1.6-1                        1.5-1                                   1
systemc                              2.3.3-2                      2.3.3-1                                 1
tailscale                            1.12.0-1                     1.10.2-1                                1
timeshift-autosnap                   0.10-1                       0.9-1                                   1
uglify-js                            3.14.1-1                     3.14.0-1                                1
v2ray-domain-list-community          20210727125446-1             20210725030530-1                        1
whipper                              0.10.0-3                     0.10.0-2                                1
lib32-systemd                        248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
camlp4                               4.12+1-1                     4.11-1                                  1
camlp5                               8.0-1                        7.12-11                                 1
cargo-spellcheck                     0.8.11-1                     0.8.9-1                                 1
coq                                  8.13.2-2                     8.13.2-1                                1
coq-doc                              8.13.2-2                     8.13.2-1                                1
coqide                               8.13.2-2                     8.13.2-1                                1
dotnet-host                          5.0.8.sdk205-1               5.0.7.sdk204-2                          1
dotnet-runtime                       5.0.8.sdk205-1               5.0.7.sdk204-2                          1
dotnet-runtime-3.1                   3.1.17.sdk117-1              3.1.16.sdk116-1                         1
dotnet-sdk                           5.0.8.sdk205-1               5.0.7.sdk204-2                          1
dotnet-sdk-3.1                       3.1.17.sdk117-1              3.1.16.sdk116-1                         1
dotnet-targeting-pack                5.0.8.sdk205-1               5.0.7.sdk204-2                          1
dotnet-targeting-pack-3.1            3.1.17.sdk117-1              3.1.16.sdk116-1                         1
dune                                 2.9.0-2                      2.9.0-1                                 1
manjaro-release                      21.1.0rc3-1                  21.1.0rc1-2                             1
systemd                              248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
systemd-libs                         248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
systemd-resolvconf                   248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
systemd-sysvcompat                   248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
bluedevil                            1:5.22.4-1                   1:5.22.3-1                              1
breeze                               5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
breeze-grub                          5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
breeze-gtk                           5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
brltty                               6.3-4                        6.3-3                                   1
cmake                                3.21.1-1                     3.21.0-1                                1
discover                             5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
drkonqi                              5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
facile                               1.1.3-13                     1.1.3-12                                1
gegl                                 0.4.30-5                     0.4.30-4                                1
geoip-database                       20210727-1                   20210622-1                              1
geoip-database-extra                 20210727-1                   20210622-1                              1
graphviz                             2.48.0-2                     2.48.0-1                                1
grpc                                 1.39.0-1                     1.38.1-1                                1
grpc-cli                             1.39.0-1                     1.38.1-1                                1
kactivitymanagerd                    5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kde-cli-tools                        5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kde-gtk-config                       5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kdecoration                          5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kdeplasma-addons                     5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kgamma5                              5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
khotkeys                             5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kinfocenter                          5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kmenuedit                            5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kscreen                              5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kscreenlocker                        5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
ksshaskpass                          5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
ksystemstats                         5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kwallet-pam                          5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kwayland-integration                 5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kwayland-server                      5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kwin                                 5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
kwrited                              5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
lablgtk2                             2.18.11-7                    2.18.11-6                               1
layer-shell-qt                       5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
libkscreen                           5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
libksysguard                         5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
hivex                                1.3.20-6                     1.3.20-5                                1
home-assistant                       2021.7.4-2                   2021.5.3-2                              1
llvm                                 12.0.1-2                     12.0.1-1                                1
llvm-libs                            12.0.1-2                     12.0.1-1                                1
llvm-ocaml                           12.0.1-2                     12.0.1-1                                1
in-toto                              1.1.1-1                      1.0.1-1                                 1
maxima                               5.45.1-2                     5.45.1-1                                1
milou                                5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
jenkins                              2.304-1                      2.303-1                                 1
jmol                                 14.31.48-1                   14.31.47-1                              1
jsmol                                14.31.48-1                   14.31.47-1                              1
ocaml                                4.12.0-1                     4.11.1-1                                1
ocaml-compiler-libs                  4.12.0-1                     4.11.1-1                                1
ocaml-ctypes                         0.17.1-6                     0.17.1-5                                1
ocaml-integers                       0.4.0-4                      0.4.0-3                                 1
ocaml-result                         1.5-4                        1.5-3                                   1
ocaml-topkg                          1.0.3-2                      1.0.3-1                                 1
ocamlbuild                           0.14.0-10                    0.14.0-9                                1
jupyterlab                           3.1.0-1                      3.0.16-1                                1
oxygen                               5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
lablgtk3                             3.1.1-3                      3.1.1-2                                 1
plasma-browser-integration           5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-desktop                       5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-disks                         5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-firewall                      5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-integration                   5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-nm                            5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-pa                            5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-sdk                           5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-systemmonitor                 5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-2                                1
plasma-thunderbolt                   5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-vault                         5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-wayland-session               5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-workspace                     5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
plasma-workspace-wallpapers          5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
polkit-kde-agent                     5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
libguestfs                           1.44.1-6                     1.44.1-5                                1
powerdevil                           5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
libretro-beetle-pce-fast             1129-1                       1127-1                                  1
libretro-beetle-psx                  2544-1                       2538-1                                  1
libretro-beetle-psx-hw               2544-1                       2538-1                                  1
libretro-gambatte                    912-1                        908-1                                   1
python-tomli                         1.1.0-2                      1.1.0-1                                 1
libretro-mgba                        7979-1                       7842-1                                  1
libretro-mupen64plus-next            1:374-1                      1:343-1                                 1
libretro-play                        6630-1                       6549-1                                  1
libretro-ppsspp                      30121-1                      29976-1                                 1
libretro-shaders-slang               816-1                        814-1                                   1
libretro-yabause                     3312-1                       3311-1                                  1
sbcl                                 2.1.6-1                      2.1.1-1                                 1
sddm-kcm                             5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
snapd                                2.51.3-2                     2.51.3-1                                1
systemsettings                       5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
mame                                 0.234-1                      0.233-1                                 1
mame-tools                           0.234-1                      0.233-1                                 1
manjaro-bluetooth                    20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
manjaro-connman                      20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
manjaro-gstreamer                    20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
manjaro-input                        20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
manjaro-modem                        20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
xdg-desktop-portal-kde               5.22.4-1                     5.22.3-1                                1
mdbook                               0.4.11-1                     0.4.10-1                                1
mumble                               1.3.4-8                      1.3.4-7                                 1
murmur                               1.3.4-8                      1.3.4-7                                 1
netstandard-targeting-pack           5.0.8.sdk205-1               5.0.7.sdk204-2                          1
arrow                                3.0.0-5                      3.0.0-4                                 1
aspnet-runtime                       5.0.8.sdk205-1               5.0.7.sdk204-2                          1
aspnet-runtime-3.1                   3.1.17.sdk117-1              3.1.16.sdk116-1                         1
aspnet-targeting-pack                5.0.8.sdk205-1               5.0.7.sdk204-2                          1
aspnet-targeting-pack-3.1            3.1.17.sdk117-1              3.1.16.sdk116-1                         1
atom                                 1.58.0-1                     1.57.0-1                                1
nomad-driver-containerd              0.9-1                        0.8-2                                   1
npm                                  7.20.2-1                     7.20.1-1                                1
ocaml-base                           0.14.1-2                     0.14.1-1                                1
ocaml-cairo                          0.6.2-2                      0.6.2-1                                 1
ocaml-compiler-libs-repackaged       0.12.3-2                     0.12.3-1                                1
ocaml-csexp                          1.3.2-2                      1.3.2-1                                 1
ocaml-findlib                        1.9.1-2                      1.9.1-1                                 1
ocaml-hashcons                       1.3-2                        1.3-1                                   1
ocaml-lablgl                         1.06-9                       1.06-8                                  1
ocaml-num                            1.4-3                        1.4-2                                   1
ocaml-ppx_derivers                   1.2.1-6                      1.2.1-5                                 1
ocaml-sexplib0                       0.14.0-3                     0.14.0-2                                1
ocaml-stdio                          0.14.0-3                     0.14.0-2                                1
ocaml-stdlib-shims                   0.3.0-2                      0.3.0-1                                 1
ocaml-zarith                         1.11-2                       1.11-1                                  1
borgmatic                            1.5.17-1                     1.5.16-1                                1
pcsx2                                1.7.0.r1545.34e779a65-1      1.7.0.r1505.2e411a601-2                 1
php-grpc                             1.39.0-1                     1.38.1-1                                1
php7-grpc                            1.39.0-1                     1.38.1-1                                1
python-btrfs                         13-1                         12-2                                    1
python-confuse                       1.5.0-1                      1.4.0-1                                 1
:: 13017 packages

At this point I wonder if going to Stable wouldn’t be better to test updates. What is going on?

I mean at this point, Stable is closer to Unstable than Testing branch:

[omano@omano-nvme ~]$ mbn versions --unstable --stable -v          
:: Compare versions stable / unstable
xapp                                 2.2.3-1                      2.2.3-2                       -1
lib32-systemd                        248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
cinnamon                             5.0.5-5                      5.0.5-6                       -1
mhwd-db                              0.6.5-14                     0.6.5-15                      -1
systemd                              248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
systemd-libs                         248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
systemd-resolvconf                   248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
systemd-sysvcompat                   248.6-1                      249.2-1                       -1
manjaro-bluetooth                    20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
manjaro-connman                      20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
manjaro-gstreamer                    20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
manjaro-input                        20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
manjaro-modem                        20210102-1                   20210109-1                    -1
nemo                                 5.0.3-3                      5.0.3-4                       -1
:: 13017 packages
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As mentioned by @omano

grpc related packages have not updated, they are still at 1.38 while even stable branches are at 1.39. This caused my qv2ray to crash (it has updated today and need grpc>=1.39)